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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊

@markus.recommend.games

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Human Approximation of Artificial Intelligence. He/him. Founder of @recommend.games

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 25/06/2026

The simulated bracket at the moment according to my model (which has been shite so far). I hate that #FIFA inflates the tournament and then creates clashes like 🇫🇷 France vs 🇩🇪 Germany in the round of fucking 16. #WorldCup #2026WC #FIFAisamafia

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 10/11/2025

The computations for this plot took almost 14 days. I hope you enjoy it. 🤓

p_deterministic vs standard deviation of Elo distribution for various player counts

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 27/02/2025

This is now my second favourite #maths joke of all times 🤓

A meme featuring the "Stonks" character, a distorted humanoid figure in a suit, standing confidently in front of a stock market background with an upward-trending orange arrow. The text reads: "When you give someone $1 today, $2 tomorrow, $3 the next day and so on, and eventually earn $1/12."

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 22/02/2025

My apologies to international followers for all the German posts. It'll be over after tomorrow. Till then, here's a #BoardGame for you: we're about to die on the Cursed Island... 🏝️ ☠️

Robinson Crusoe board set up and ready to play

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 24/11/2024

Finally got to try #LordOfTheRings - #DuelForMiddleEarth 🤓 After first play this seems to be an improvement over #7WondersDuel is every respect. The Fellowship lost despite standing at the edge of Mount Doom - excited for more plays! 🤩

Final game situation of Duel for Middle Earth

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 24/09/2024

If you're curious to find out what this map has to do with #BoardGameGeek, you should check out this article: blog.recommend.games/posts/world-...

A political map of the world with countries coloured by the size of their BoardGameGeek community

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 22/09/2024

Here's one of the main animations from my article about debiasing the #BoardGameGeek ranking. This and more details in the full article: blog.recommend.games/posts/debias...

Scatterplot of board game complexity vs rating. The trend line shows a strong positive correlation. The animation then lowers the slope till the complexity bias is removed.

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 17/08/2024

My 4yo remarked today that "many mice" would still fit into the metro seat, which made me think that "Mice Metro" could be a cool theme for a children's game, so I asked #ChatGPT to design it. It's just amazing how detailed the description and image of the board were! 🤓

An AI generated children's board game called Mice Metro

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 09/04/2024

Having a flu sucks, but at least I have some time to play around with board game data and embeddings… 🤓 Next blog post?

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 24/03/2024

Sneak peek: this is how the Gini coefficient developed over time when applied to the number of ratings on BGG. The inequality is indeed growing, even in the board game world…

A plot of the Gini coefficient of board game ratings over time. The plot starts at about 0.80 in 2017 and rises steadily to over 0.83 in 2024.

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🙈 Markus 💙💛 Shepherd 🙊 @markus.recommend.games · 19/09/2023

Look what the cat dragged in! 🤩 #Weimar #BoardGames @ulible.bsky.social

The board game "Weimar - the fight for democracy" in shrink wrap waiting to be explored 🤓

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